Sentences with phrase «cosmic scale of things»

Although these events are extremely energetic, in the cosmic scale of things, they are located too far and occur too infrequently for Earth - based scientists to observe.

The image, captured when Mars was just 50 million miles from Earth — a mere stone's throw away in the cosmic scale of things — shows russet Martian deserts pockmarked with craters and bright frosty polar caps shrouded, in some regions, in a thin haze of clouds.

In this view, not only is our planet one among many, but even our entire universe is insignificant on the cosmic scale of things.

Not exact matches

In this completely social philosophy (conflict, which is not denied, being also a social relation) God is that in the cosmos whereby it is a cosmos; he is the individual case on the cosmic scale of all the ultimate categories (including those of social feeling, «subjective aim,» etc.) thanks to which these categories describe a community of things, and not merely things each enclosed in unutterable privacy, irrelevant to and unordered with respect to anything else.

On the cosmic scale, the intelligibility that agape originates is a harmony; it is an orderliness of continuities among things and events.